From Lauren, Finland, September 2019

01 September 2019

Lauren, Tampere, Finland

Me swimming in Lake Näsijärvi in Tampere, Finland just over two weeks after I moved here from Britain in August 2015.
Finnish nature is breathtaking during both the summer and the winter.
Finland is known as ‘the land of a thousand lakes’ - 187,888 lakes to be specific!

Lauren

This postcard is one of several collated as part of collaboration between Dr Michaela Benson and the Migration Museum. A selection of these appears in the Postcards from the British in Europe installation in Departures, the museum's current exhibition exploring four centuries of emigration from Britain, bringing Britain’s emigration story and its emigrants into the national conversation about migration

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